Archmage Callinon wrote:
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Early access is just a way to make money.
In this case Early Access is also a way to spread out the population..
Depends really - They already branched off the storyline path so it already spread people out. EA doesn't spread people out too much if the content supports it, but considering HW areas are mostly FATES and the Main story quests/side quests..so while it does ease congestion, once you're done with an area...you pretty much have no reason to go back to them unless you like the sights. So if that's what you mean by spreading the population, you're correct, otherwise naturally people would have dispersed as is.
The 3 new jobs are what spread the population as most focused on leveling and not the main story and such, but the new areas are large enough they support a large amount of people. The only issue is the game client struggles severely when too many are trying to be rendered.
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Think about it. If there'd been no Early Access period, EVERYONE would be all over western highlands and sea of clouds on day 1. It'd be a zoo.
Had more issues in Coerthas and North Thanalan than I did Western Highlands and Sea of Clouds.
Lonix wrote:
I've also encountered no bugs.
You must be on a tiny server, reading the forums it's actually been confirmed there's bugs with the DX11 client, certain Dravanian NPCs and Bismarck occasionally ceasing to attack. (Hence the hotfix tonight, no bugs means no hotfixes.) So we'll see what they're fixing tonight - The game still has the age old "too many people in one spot, quest markers and npcs won't load on neither map/minimap nor field of view" issue since 2.0, so there are bugs, nothing is ever bug free in MMOs, you've gotten lucky to not get stuck for a day due to NPCs not loading or none offering you quests due to rendering problems so the game thinks they only have a dialog and no quest options. Not to mention the "special FATE" in dravania people got no credit for because....it was invisible to 90% of the people there (that's a bug), so yeah it is fairly buggy but some bugs have been around since 2.0 lol.
Speaking of which, after playing around a bit it does seem that FXAA option is what caused a bit of problems on my end. So overall it wasn't a terrible launch, there are problems but nothing gamebreaking.
Edited, Jun 22nd 2015 8:56am by Theonehio